Corporate Bond & MTN Reporter

Derivia Intelligence is a leading provider of specialist data and insights to the global financial services industry. Through its brands Structured Retail Products (SRP), Global Capital (GC) and Futures & Options World (FOW), the group delivers mission-critical products that enable clients to navigate complexity and drive performance across intricate areas of global finance.

For almost four decades Global Capital — one of three flagship businesses within Derivia, alongside SRP and FOW — has provided an unparalleled combination of incisive and timely data, news, insights and events surrounding the world’s capital and derivatives markets.

Today, Derivia is trusted by the world’s largest investment banks, bond issuers, asset managers, hedge funds, service providers and regulators to allow them to transact with confidence.

Global Capital reporters produce a broad range of editorial content, mostly written, on their specialist sectors of the capital markets and contribute to our suite of data products, industry awards and other events. They are also an ambassador for the organisation in their market.

This reporter will work on the Corporate Bond and Medium Term Note sections of Global Capital. They will supporting the Senior Corporate Bond Reporter in providing coverage and data on the primary bond market in Europe for investment grade companies. They will also provide coverage of the medium term note market and support Global Capital’s MTN Monitor data product in conjunction with the data specialists working on the product.

This role is a fantastic opportunity to write to develop a deep understanding of complex, nuanced and important financial markets, and to build relationships with senior and influential people within them and also to grow alongside and exciting new data offering to GC’s subscribers.

• Contribute Global Capital’s coverage of the European investment grade corporate bond market.
• Work with the Senior Corporate Bond Reporter and other senior editors to identify the most important deals, themes, people moves and other industry news and provide the most engaging and accurate analysis possible to provide readers with a unique take on the markets. This includes helping to gather and record timely and accurate data for the Primary Market Monitor database.
• Develop Global Capital’s editorial coverage of the medium term note (MTN) market, getting to know key players in that market, under the guidance of senior members of Global Capital’s editorial team.
• Help to develop sources of deal data in the MTN market to develop the MTN Monitor product, working in conjunction with the Global Capital data team.
• Contribute to the full range of Global Capital’s coverage — from hard news to analysis, to opinion, to features — in house style and to tight deadlines, to maintain our distinctive editorial voice and its reputation as a reliable and indispensable tool of working in capital markets.
• Build a broad number of deep relationships with key people in the corporate bond and MTN markets and become part of the daily fabric of those markets, ensuring our understanding of our subject and our readers is better than those of any of our rivals and that we have as many sources for stories as possible.
• Be a voice of the Corporate Bond and MTN sections within Global Capital, pitching story ideas, championing special report ideas, providing insight and collaborating with the rest of the editorial team where appropriate.
• Provide cover for other reporters, where appropriate. This enables us to provide consistent coverage and helps to broaden the journalist’s skills.
• Represent the newspaper at industry events to provide coverage, build contacts…